A look at the midnight screening of The Avengers at Tempe Marketplace 16.

Check out the teaser for season 5 of Star Wars: Clone Wars, unveiled by StarWars.com today to coincide with “Star Wars Day.” May the 4th Be With You!
Featured prominently: a vengeful Darth Maul, rescued last season by his brother Savage Opress, and the Mandalorian splinter group known as Death Watch.

And there came a movie, a movie unlike any other, where Earth’s mightiest heroes and heroines found themselves united against a common threat. On that day, “The Avengers” became the greatest comic book film ever created, and for pure unbridled and exciting entertainment value, this may be Earth’s greatest movie ever.

Ignite Phoenix #12 is one of the valley’s premier community themed events and is happening this Friday, May 4, 2012, from 6:30-9:30 p.m. at the Virginia G. Piper Theater at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. Out of over 90 submissions, 18 different speakers from the local creative, technical, and business communities were selected to give a 5-minute presentation (with a maximum 20 slides) on projects or topics that they are passionate about.
The show has sold-out, but you can follow Ignite Phoenix on FACEBOOK where announcements will be …

When multi-billionaire industrialist Tony Stark, inventor extraordinaire, dons his solar-charged, steel-mesh armor, he becomes a high-tech warrior — the world’s greatest human fighting machine! The Invincible Iron Man – Marvel Comics circa 1990s
In 1963, Stan Lee envisioned Iron Man as a commentary on the Cold War and the U.S. military industrial complex, and together with his brother, Larry Lieber, and artists Jack “King” Kirby and Don Heck, they created one of comics’ most compelling characters and one of the few self-made superheroes.
Industrialist Tony Stark (who is based on the real-life …

For those of you who missed it, here is a look back at LepreCon 38. It was loads of fun and we all had a great time.

Sherlock Preview in the Park Friday bit.ly/JqMjy8 #Phoenix
— Nerdvana (@nerdvana) May 2, 2012
 

1941! The world at war! And in a secret laboratory, frail Steve Rogers became the American super-soldier! For four thrilling years, he fought the Axis powers — until a freak stroke of fate threw him into suspended animation. He awoke in the mid-1960s, a man twenty years out of his time. Since that fateful day, Steve Rogers has sought his destiny in this brave new world! Captain America – Marvel Comics circa 1970s
America’s “first Avenger,” Captain America (Steve Rogers), was created by writer Joe Simon and artist Jack “King” …

I was at my local comic shop yesterday, when a fellow shopper asked me a question that made me stop and think. She asked, “What was your ‘Gateway Book’?”

This weekend GateWorld reported on some developments that could move the defunct Stargate SG-1 franchise forward. It sounds like there is an app-based game in the works for smartphones and tablets, but there are hints of a further announcement at Comic-Con that would involve a larger revival.
Last year about this time we saw the end of 14 consecutive years of Stargate being on TV in some form when Stargate Universe ended, a victim of Syfy’s infamous penchant for canceling scripted sci-fi shows in favor of “reality” programming. We’ve also borne witness to …